[–] DeathByLiver ago
Commodore 64 NES SNES N64 XBOX (hard modded) XBOX 360 XBONE
the only one I would change is XBONE. I really regret not having gotten a PS4 instead. What a shit system and a ripoff the XBONE is after how great the 360 was.
A2600 > NES > Genesis > Saturn > N64 > Xbox > Ps2 > ps3 > ps4. Sadly i always traded in the old one for credit towards the new.
Would have loved SNES but friends all had one so it worked out pretty well.
Primarily PC game though. Have since my uncle showed me commander keen. My PC gaming career started with a Pentium 2 gateway PC. My first upgrade to it was adding in a voodoo2. Quake 2 looked so cool, the lighting really stuck out after adding the 3d card, which was my first real experience with mods in gaming too. I used to scribble down ip addresses of servers since there was no server browser (tangent but anyone remember Mplayer?). Played quake 1, doom, etc.. too but really quake 2 was my go to PC FPS until i discovered Starsiege Tribes. My one friend had an older brother who was into IT. He graduated HS around 2000. He used to set us up with DukeNukem3d over his lan at home which was always a blast.
RTS games really grabbed me. Warcraft, WC2, and Starcraft primarily but i played some C*C. Also warzone2100 popped into my head just now. Howitzers across the giant map? yes please.
Probably the most memorable and profound game was discovering Everquest, playing on 28.8 dialup was not very fun but it worked enough. That game though.. i put in almost 4 months play time in the 1st year i had it. I'm not too proud of that considering i could have stood to socialize more in HS, which is the period of my life that game was current in, but it is what it is.
Sorry for the off topic ramble there.
[–] bassman1805 ago
First console was a Sega Genesis that my dad got Mom when they were in college.
Grandpa got us a playstation at some point, and I got a gamecube sometime in elementary school.
Didn't get a new console after that until the PS3. At some point, it broke, but was under warranty, so we got a new one. The new one was a newer model (not sure if screwup or dad just paid extra for it), and wasn't backwards-compatible, so we got a PS2, a generation late.
Got a Wii, which was used mostly by my parents and siblings. Somewhere around this time I tried to buy Portal for PS3, but they only had it for PC at Gamestop. At this point I joined the PC master Race.
My little brother currently has a PS4. I've never touched the thing, partly because of my PC games, partly because I live a few hundred miles away from him.
In hindsight, the only change I would make is PS3->Xbox 360, and move the PS2 to when it was actually released.
[–] solidsalamander ago
This is how it went for me growing up to now:
There's not really anything I would change. I loved all the systems I grew up with, and I still have my PS2, 360, and N64. Presently, I'd be purely PC if it weren't for Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, Fire Emblem Awakening (and as of E3, Fates), and Xenoblade Chronicles on 3DS.
[–] Mindless_Consumer ago (edited ago)
Honestly, early on, the main reason I abandoned consoles is none of them brought me joy like the n64 did. That and I hate controllers, Mouse and keyboard FTW. I wouldn't change a thing, only maybe have taken better care of them.
[–] Drakinor ago (edited ago)
I have had multiple gaming PC's as well since about Playstation 2 timeframe
EDIT: I really wanted an Atari as a kid, but at that point I was "too young for video games" and was told "video games will rot your mind" by my parents. They eventually caved on the NES though.